Two days after the election, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told ABC News that the Republicans' mission was to appeal to nonwhite voters: "How do we speak to all Americans? You know, not just to people who look like us and act like us, but how do we speak to all Americans?"

And then, inevitably, there are these mandarins of politics, who give the voice: 'Don't show any contrasts. Don't rock the boat.' So by the third debate, I'm pretty certain Mitt Romney actually French-kissed Barack Obama."

After nearly two weeks of listening to GOP officials pledge to assert greater control over the party and its most strident voices in the wake of Romney's loss, grass-roots activists have begun to fight back, saying that they are not to blame for the party's losses in November.

they are PARTLY to blame, not completely or solely to blame. the GOP lost to a combination of reasons, everything from contempt towards 47% of voters to class warfare to an extreme right wing religious theocratic philosophies. then there was the exceptionally bad campaign organization Romney put together. plenty of blame to go around on this issue...and it'd would do the GOP a disservice to pin all the blame on ONE faction within the Republican party.

that said, the GOP does have a problem with their theocrats. they need to reign in the religious folks if they plan on climbing out of the hole they've dug for the Republican party.

dahmers love zombie:Two days after the election, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told ABC News that the Republicans' mission was to appeal to nonwhite voters: "How do we speak to all Americans? You know, not just to people who look like us and act like us, but how do we speak to all Americans?"

Weaver95:After nearly two weeks of listening to GOP officials pledge to assert greater control over the party and its most strident voices in the wake of Romney's loss, grass-roots activists have begun to fight back, saying that they are not to blame for the party's losses in November.

they are PARTLY to blame, not completely or solely to blame. the GOP lost to a combination of reasons, everything from contempt towards 47% of voters to class warfare to an extreme right wing religious theocratic philosophies. then there was the exceptionally bad campaign organization Romney put together. plenty of blame to go around on this issue...and it'd would do the GOP a disservice to pin all the blame on ONE faction within the Republican party.

that said, the GOP does have a problem with their theocrats. they need to reign in the religious folks if they plan on climbing out of the hole they've dug for the Republican party.

Then they have to be willing to lose for a couple years, like a baseball team rebuilding.

FTA: "The moderates have had their candidate in 2008 and they had their candidate in 2012. And they got crushed in both elections. Now they tell us we have to keep moderating. If we do that, will we win?" said Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader

Look, dipshiats, your own party thought that Frothy, Corn Dog, N*bonghead, Major Tom Gingrich and 9-9-9 were too fringe during the primaries. What makes you think voters will go down Derp Highway again in 2016?

Then they have to be willing to lose for a couple years, like a baseball team rebuilding.

I think that's going to happen no matter what.

Depends on what part of the country they're in.

point conceded - there are areas of this country that will always vote for the american taliban. But if that becomes the core of the GOP then the Republicans doom themselves to becoming a regional party and will lose control of Congress.

coeyagi:Look, dipshiats, your own party thought that Frothy, Corn Dog, N*bonghead, Major Tom Gingrich and 9-9-9 were too fringe during the primaries. What makes you think voters will go down Derp Highway again in 2016?

dahmers love zombie:Two days after the election, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told ABC News that the Republicans' mission was to appeal to nonwhite voters: "How do we speak to all Americans? You know, not just to people who look like us and act like us, but how do we speak to all Americans?"

I would like Boehner to go on the air and explain those three words.

He's saying that they need to expand their base and start to go after the non-douchebag voters.

To moderate OS actually a reasonable diagnosis. He had to sprint right in the primary and then sprint back. It made him out to be a flip flopper and he was never able to stake out a clear position or sound earnest about anything. I suspect that someone to the right of him would have lost by a substantiall

CPennypacker:coeyagi: Look, dipshiats, your own party thought that Frothy, Corn Dog, N*bonghead, Major Tom Gingrich and 9-9-9 were too fringe during the primaries. What makes you think voters will go down Derp Highway again in 2016?

LOL thats not what happened

Really? Then what happened? $$$$? So start a collection by the evangelicals. Let's see if that really gets them over the 20% hump in the primaries.

To moderate OS actually a reasonable diagnosis. He had to sprint right in the primary and then sprint back. It made him out to be a flip flopper and he was never able to stake out a clear position or sound earnest about anything. I suspect that someone to the right of him would have lost by a substantially smaller margin.

Muta:FTA: "The moderates have had their candidate in 2008 and they had their candidate in 2012. And they got crushed in both elections. Now they tell us we have to keep moderating. If we do that, will we win?" said Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader

What sunk the election was the litany of stupid comments from others, like Akin.

And an imprecise description of how economics work. Bain became the boogyman because most people don't know the ultimate goal of venture capitalists is to trim costs, revive a company, and sell it as a larger and healthier concern. Good ones are more successful at it than others, and some distressed companies are too far gone to save.

We are truly headed for a debt-laden crater in the road unless we figure out how to decrease spending, and possibly increase taxes. Definitely need to increase employment, therefore raising revenues through growth.

I would agree the tide may have shifted a little on other issues, too, although the main points of loss this time were poor communication by Romney's campaign and idiotic slut/rape commentaries that made no sense.

dahmers love zombie:Two days after the election, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told ABC News that the Republicans' mission was to appeal to nonwhite voters: "How do we speak to all Americans? You know, not just to people who look like us and act like us, but how do we speak to all Americans?"